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Visible.net Yahoo Videos - Online Video Commercials

Yahoo Videos by Visible.net Assortment of videos produced by Visible.net on Yahoo... Get A Bag LandR Promotional Items Abigails Herbals Sports Banners Pennants Kates Kosy Korner (Bedding) Kates Kosy Korner (Blankets) Candys ...READ»

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Microsoft and Yahoo Losing Search in a BIG Way

The latest search numbers were recently released and it appears that for the month of August once again Microsoft and Yahoo lost market share to Google. What’s worse is that not only are they losing market share in a growing ...READ»

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Same Old Challenges in the New Telecom Era

There comes a single, unified network. One that carries data, voice, and video all over the same wires. The alphabet soup of telecom technologies -- POTS, SONET, ATM -- will vanish. It will be all Internet, all of the time. The ...READ»

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Yahoo Floats New Homepage

Yahoo [YHOO] is, by most metrics, the most frequented website on the Internet. Conscious that more and more online activity is shifting into the realm of social networks, blogs, and other what-have-yous, the company is debuting a ...READ»

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Yahoo's new look--worth a look?

Yahoo unveiled its new home page, its first overhaul since September 2004. You can view it here. It's a little sleeker than the previous iteration if you view them side by side, but overall, what's the big deal here? It's still an ...READ»

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Back to the Future - Helloooooo, McFly?!

 Is it time that we turned back the clock, figure out what made the web tick, combine it with recent innovative strategies, and then apply it to our innovation strategy? I think so. Read why. Wow, it really seems like the Web 2.0 ...READ»

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Binghoo Update: Has the Marriage Been Called Off?

We thought it was a done deal: Yahoo and Microsoft were cosying up together, with Bing superceding Yahoo's own search engine. Now there's news Yahoo may let users choose which engine runs on their pages. What's going on?This data has ...READ»

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How and why would I change OpenID.

Identity Management has been a pretty hot topic for a while now. As some digital providers getting more traction and recognition from large companies such as Microsoft, Google and Yahoo - I looked at OpenID ( http://openid.net/ ) to ...READ»

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Yahoo's New Ad Blitz: It's All About "Y!ou"

Before getting into how we feel about Yahoo’s new marketing campaign, let’s get the news out of the way. The company's new slogan is “It Starts With Y!ou.” That’s their spelling (or misspelling), not ours. Yahoo is spending ...READ»

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Will Yahoo Win the Search Wars with Info Overload?

Today Yahoo! began a $100 million advertising push with the following commercial, which the company says is titled "Anthem." Can Yahoo win the search-ad wars with inundation? That's a lot of humanity for one ad: a lot of colors, a ...READ»

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Making Online Groups and Bulk Email Work for You

300 million people are members of online groups -- but most are using them in a painfully inefficient way. Get expert views on how you can make these work best for you. READ»

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Lap Dances at Yahoo's Hack Days? A Lesson in Monitoring a Global Brand

"Scantily clad gyrating women" who give lap dances to men on your company's dime can damage your brand within seconds. Who's in the hot seat today? Yahoo! It appears that Hack Days are quite a different experience in Taiwan ...READ»

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Same Old Challenges in the New Telecom Era

No competitor, whether born in the Internet boom or several decades earlier, will succeed without recognizing that revolutions in strategy call for bold steps in organizational design.READ»

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Free to Be... Not on TV

Following its fizzle and failure as a live music concert broadcast on the WB, "Pepsi Smash" will find new life as a Web cast on Yahoo, reports the New York Times. Even though the eight-episode program attracted 1.3 million viewers, ...READ»

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Yahoo's Strategy Shift

I heard Wenda Millard speak a couple of months ago at a digital-media luncheon, and she assured the audience that Yahoo was not planning to become a major provider of original content. This was meant to address competitive concerns ...READ»

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Digital Matters - Issue 34

"A few years from now, we'll look back on dotcom mania as a model of investment sanity and prudence."READ»

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Yahoo Builds the Nostradamus of Search Engines

The search giant's Time Explorer experiment keeps track of past predictions on a future timeline. Is this how we'll all search someday? READ»

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At What Price Freedom?

It's already been reported that companies such as Microsoft and Google censor content of Internet users in China at the behest of the government there. Now comes a story of how Yahoo -- which also allows its content to be censored -- ...READ»

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Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: "I'm Just a Manager"

Think the scrutiny of managing the Yahoo fishbowl is unnerving? Maybe you wouldn't be fazed by having all those eyes on you if you'd grown up with pig eyeballs on your dinner plate. The CEO of Yahoo on the challenges of leading, making mistakes, and cursing people out.READ»

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Layoff Phenomenon: The Sayonara Email

Layoffs suck. I'm sure I could phrase it more delicately, but -- to use one of the overused similes of 2008 -- that's like putting lipstick on a pig. And one of the worst parts about losing your job this way is saying good-bye.How ...READ»

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Is Marketing the New Science?

What a change! It wasn't long ago that product development and engineering were the scientific parts of the business. In this Dilbert-world, marketing was seen as an art, practiced by those whose expertise was garnering mind share ...READ»

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It's a Web, Web, Web, Web World

The Web reinvents many of the basics of business life: where you get your news, how you search for information, what it takes to communicate. Here's our crash course in how to Web-ify yourself.READ»

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Score One for Sanity in Yahoo Music Webcast Ruling

The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled in favor of Yahoo's appeal against punitive music royalty fees levied on its online Launchcast music service. Sounds bland? Nope--it may have a big impact on the online music ...READ»

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Why is Yahoo Not Buying Back Its Stock?

In a recent Fortune article, Yi-Wyn Yen suggested that Yahoo's management should announce a major buyback the way Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard did. Yi-Wyn Yen quoted Argues Canaccord Adams equity analyst Colin Gillis as saying ...READ»

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Driving Web Traffic - Common SEO Practices

What good is having a store without customers? A TV commercial with no viewers? Similarly, a website without visitors is a waste of cyberspace and money. The reality is that many businesses have ineffective website marketing that fails to deliver sufficient return for the time, effort and money spent. READ»